I struggled for a while with pronouncing Carpentier’s name because he was Cuban but Carpentier isn’t a Spanish last name; then I learned that his father was French. All my questions are answered.<\/p>\n
This is only semi-appropriate because I can not for the life of me think of any good questions for this text, but I’ll try.<\/p>\n
1) The role of sons. Ti No\u00ebl has 12 sons. Henri Cristophe has one son, his legitimate heir, assassinated 10 days after he killed himself.\u00a0Ti No\u00ebl’s sons are barely mentioned. Cristophe’s is never mentioned at all, though his daughter’s are; why does Carpentier ignore sons in this novel?<\/p>\n
2) After Macandal’s “execution”, it is stated that “Macandal had kept his word, remaining in The Kingdom of This World”. Of course, the end of the novel makes explicit that The Kingdom of This World is a world of suffering. What does this say about the role of suffering in revolution?<\/p>\n
3)\u00a0Ti No\u00ebl by the end of the novel (before his metamorphoses) is reduced to a pathetic figure: wearing a stolen coat every day, talking to dolls, living in ruins, entertaining himself with delusions of power. If\u00a0Ti No\u00ebl represents the black everyman, then what is Carpentier saying about the state of the black man, or of Haiti?<\/p>\n
4) Queen Marie, both in this novel and the\u00a0C\u00e9saire play, is the only female that is not sexualized. Why?<\/p>\n
That’s all I can think of for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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